For ROOT disk the service offering gets used. For data disk you use the disk 
offering. The 'disk_offering' table has a field called 'type' which says if it 
is a disk or service offering.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Coates [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 8:11 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Identifying a VM's ROOT disk offering via the database
> 
> Unfortunately no, that's the Service Offering ID.
> 
> 
> On 25 June 2013 07:20, Koushik Das <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Check out the 'volumes' table in the database. There is a
> > 'disk_offering_id' column. Based on this id check the 'disk_offering'
> > table to see the details.
> > Is this what you are looking for?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Andy Coates [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 7:43 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: Identifying a VM's ROOT disk offering via the database
> > >
> > > Hi Sanjay,
> > >
> > > That may be the case, but how do you identify what Disk Offering
> > > those ROOT disks are based on?
> > >
> > > After you create a VM you can identify its Service Offering, but not
> > > its
> > Disk
> > > Offering - and that's what I'm trying to establish here.
> > >
> > > Some of our Disk Offerings use SATA disks, some use SAS, or even
> > > Fiber Channel.  When a VM is created from an ISO you can choose the
> > > Disk Offering, but where is that information stored afterwards?
> > > Likewise if I made a template of that new VM's disk, would it
> > > continue to use the same Disk Offering the original VM was made on, and
> where can I identify that?
> > >
> > > Andy.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 24 June 2013 21:58, Sanjay Tripathi <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Andy,
> > > >
> > > > If you are deploying a VM from an ISO, the DATA DISK you select
> > > > becomes the ROOT DISK for that VM and if you are deploying a VM
> > > > from a template, then the size of template becomes the size of
> > > > ROOT DISK and you can select additional DISK as DATA DISK from
> > > > disk offering for the
> > VM.
> > > >
> > > > --Sanjay
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Andy Coates [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > > > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 6:33 PM
> > > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > > Subject: Identifying a VM's ROOT disk offering via the database
> > > > >
> > > > > Hey,
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone know where in the database you can find out what
> > > > > Disk Offering a VM's ROOT disk is based on?
> > > > >
> > > > > To follow on from that, if you made a template from a new VM
> > > > > (via ISO
> > > > > image) that, for example, used MyDiskOfferingA, would further
> > > > > instances
> > > > of
> > > > > that template also use the same Disk Offering (as you cannot
> > > > > change the ROOT disk offering from a template instantiation)?
> > > > > The templates assign
> > > > the
> > > > > same disk size, I'm just not sure how it knows if it's a
> > > > > specific Disk
> > > > Offering or
> > > > > not.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Andy.
> > > >
> >

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